Chapter 69

I rush to the youngling's training area with three Aura droids behind me. Each of their upper torso is twisting and monitoring the many blaster sounds in the air. They are here to protect me but they are falling behind as I get faster and faster. I see Anakin entering a room, the doors close automatically and two clone troopers stand guard.

I'm not playing at the moment and instantly kill them. Their helmets collapse on themselves crushing their brains into pulp. They don't see it coming and both of them drop to the floor.

I open the door and feel the shooked feelings of the confused kids who have just witnessed Anakin Skywalker, the war hero and chosen one threaten their life with his lightsaber but I also feel that Anakin is just as shocked by the state of the clone troopers behind me.

Anakin was sharp and clear when it came to battle, he could see that the dead clones had been killed with brutality, something a Jedi wouldn't do. He points his weapon at me as I am the most dangerous enemy here.

The younglings don't know what to do, Anakin hasn't attacked them yet but each one knows something is deeply wrong. I on the other hand have a complete jet black armour that looks evil but the younglings feel better around me.

I have my hand on my slugthower weapon. Both of us are silent and judge each other, probing with the force. Unfortunately, it is Anakin who speaks first.

"Dreed pirate of the starship Mirage," he says quietly under his voice.

Ahsoka properly told Anakin about the small amount of time I spent with her. It's not like many people could afford such armour as mine and Anakin guessed correctly.

"The one and only" I reply

"Why are you here" Anakin barks out

"I'm taking advantage of a bad situation created by a dumb shit" I answer.

Anakin twitches forward ready to attack but I show him something that causes him to pause, a dead man's switch.

"This, my stupid friend is a detonator that is connected to my pulse" I lied "It will explode when I get too excited or I lose blood or if I die, in fact, a light jog might cause it to detonate"

Anakin reached out and tried to force-pull the detonator out of my hand.

"Hey dipshit, you know I m force aware too" The force pull washed over my hand doing nothing.

"The explosion will kill the younglings" Anakin had the balls to say this when he was so close to killing them himself.

Anakin dashes towards me, he doesn't care who he hurts at this point. His thought process is one of hurt and kill, it's the only way he could kill children without second-guessing himself. His blade slices down as I pull my slugthrower out of its holster.

The blade is stopped by my own lightsaber. Orange lightsaber vs blue causes Anakin to be surprised. Anakin was focused on my slug thrower and didn't realise I had a lightsaber. I quickly kick him in his side causing his metal hand to crumple into spare parts when he used it to block the kick.

It's safe to say that Anakin is a great master with the lightsaber, he was taught by war and Obi-Wan Kenobi, the master of masters for form three but Anikin wasn't a master in hand-to-hand like me. A single punch from me could brake stone and when reinforced with the force I could snap steel like it was a twig. Anakin was able to keep his ribs from breaking because he had a great survival instinct to block my attack with his robotic hand.

Using the striking force from my kick Anakin created distance to save himself from further attacks. This didn't help him because I pepper him with slugs. Anakin was a lucky son of a bitch because he flipped a table over to protect himself. The table slowed the bullets enough that they no longer did piercing damage to Anakins reinforced body but I didn't let up, even if the bullets didn't price Anakin they bruised the hell out of him and caused Anakin to be shepered away from the younglings.

My Asura droids caught up with me and scooped up the younglings. Anakin was caught between a rock and a hard place, I didn't give him a place to hide and escape. Anakin tried to cut the floor open so he could escape but I held the newly cut floor up with force abilities.

Poor Anakin gave me a deep death glare with his new yellow eyes he sneered at me as I juggled him around with bullets and force powers. Two clone troopers tried to attack me while I was dealing with Anakin. I kill the clones by using invisible lightning. Anakin only witnessed the clones drop down dead like it was a command but he didn't hesitate to throw his lightsaber when he thought I was distracted. Anakins plan for his blade to cut me soon failed as the lightsaber bounced off my armour. My amour had many materials reinforced into its design, one of those materials was the Mandalorian steel that easily defended against blaster fire and lightsabers.

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Anakin tries to call his weapon back but I pull as well. I can feel that Anakin has a lot of pure power and talent but there's a negative side to using the Darkside, one that a new Darkside user doesn't understand. I take advantage of his new power.

If I had to say which side of the force I knew the most of, it would be the dark side. I don't even think Darth Sidious knows more than me but I might be wrong about that. I easily piggyback on Anakin's emotions and speak to him through his mind.

"What would Shmi Skywalker think of you right now"

Anakins grip with the force wavers enough for me to snatch his lightsaber away from him.

Anakins blade flew to my hand and I collected it.

The anger that rolled off Anakin was thick, he wanted to kill me and his anger was egging him on, the only thing stopping him was his mother's name.

"You really are a stupid and unfaithful son, you haven't visited your mother in years," I said

"What do you know about my mother" Anikin shouted at me "You know nothing"

"I know more than you, after all, I was the one who freed her and orchestrated her life," I said "While you trained you forgot that your mother was a slave and even after you joined the Jedi you didn't go back to free your mother despite having the wealth and power to do so. You forgot your mother...but I didn't"

Anakin gritted his teeth "You are an ungrateful shit, even now after finding out that I'm your mother's benefactor I can still feel your anger and need to kill me"

I feel his anger change and twist. Instead of being grateful Anakins emotions are twisting trying to find a way to blame me.

I press forward to stem his thought process. I disturb his thoughts by speaking to his mind as well as talking out loud. "You could be the greatest force user of this generation but you are so stupid"

Anakin twitches again but without a weapon and my slugthrower pointing at him, he rightly stays still.

"You joined the Sith, who you have sworn to fight and are fully aware of how evil they are and the reason you did that was because you had a vision that your wife was dying and Darth Sidious promised to heal her despite telling you that he didn't know how. Am I correct" I say with a mocking voice.

I didn't let him answer "You thick son of a nerf herder, you must know that Palpatine has been using the war to fight both sides" Anakin went to say something.

"Shut up" my voice changed to a metallic-like robot voice "You love Padme and would kill children to protect her but why haven't you tried to kill Palpatine, the man who has tried to assassinate her"

Anakins anger skipped a beat.

"Palpatine has all the power, has set things into motion and now controls the separatist and the republic, completely. It wouldn't surprise me if he makes himself Emperor but why would you go to a Sith Lord who has tried to kill you, the Jedi and your wife? This is why I call you stupid" My voice steadily returns to its normal pattern and I return my slugthrower to its holster.

"You are an idiot but even stupid people can learn" I say to a confused Anakin. I feel his emotions and can sense shame and guilt.

"You have very few choices left, the Jedi won't want you after this betrayal you showed here and I doubt you have the brain power to make the best choices so this is your first lesson from me. Palpatine isn't your friend, he will be a bad master who will teach you nothing and have you do his dirty work. You will never be a master under his tutelage"

I walk to the door that has a single Asura droid waiting to take my order but I'm stopped by Anakins voice.

"What should I do" he asks in a near whisper.

"Whatever you do, stay away from me. I won't have someone like you near me if you so easily betrayed the Jedi who are like brothers to you then I hate to think what you would do to me" I answer but before I leave completely I give him a little advice "your love and muddled brain is the reason you are in this mess. You can't trust a mind that can't think for itself so ask yourself this question"

Anakins ears are twitching for answers.

"What would your wife want, do you think she would be proud of you for killing kids could she look you in the eye and love a baby killer, always ask yourself this question because you are so very stupid" I drop his lightsaber on the floor, broken from a single squeeze from my hand and walk away to kidnap some unexpecting Jedi and children.

The Jedi temple is in ruins. Even with Anakin temporarily frozen from what he thinks he should do and what his wife would want him to do there are still thousands of clone troopers attacking the remainder of Jedi, padawans and younglings overweleming them with numbers. It's a fact that not all Jedi are masters at deflecting blaster bolts, they aren't like Obi-Wan or have the ability of Yoda. The Jedi are falling one by one and with each Jedi falling down dead it makes it that much easier for the clones to win.

My droids are doing a fine job at keeping out of sight. They have all turned into Assassin mode, a mode where if they can't kill every clone trooper within seconds then they leave and find other Jedi to kidnap.

I wish I could persuade the Jedi to come with my droids peacefully but there is limited time, and effort spent persuading a single Jedi could be used to save three Jedi by stunning them. Some Jedi are skilful enough to dodge or deflect stunning shots but only to their great misfortune. If stunning doesn't work on the first shot then a combo precise shot at all four limbs at the same time causes them to crumple in great pain.

My droids know what they are doing and a lot of pain now will be better than being killed. My ships that were packed with Asura on the way to Coruscant are now sardine-packed with Jedi, I'm not giving them a chance to escape and flood the chambers with a knock-out gas that causes dreamless sleep, a little technique I learnt when I was imprisoned.

My time at the Jedi temple is at an end, there's nothing left that I want so I leave.